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Lejopyge armata

Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae

Taxonomy
Agnostus laevigatus armata was named by Linnarsson (1869) [Middle Cambrian; Sweden, Greenland, Siberia, Canada, United States, Australia, Korea, Antarctica, China]. It is not extant.

It was recombined as Agnostus armatus by Westrop et al. (1996); it was recombined as Lejopyge armata by Lermontova (1940) and Hong et al. (2003).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1869Agnostus laevigatus armata Linnarsson
1940Lejopyge armata Lermontova
1996Agnostus armatus Westrop et al. p. 809
2003Lejopyge armata Hong et al. p. 901 figs. 4.17-4.20

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
orderAgnostidaSalter 1864
suborderAgnostinaSalter 1864
superfamilyCondylopygoideaRaymond 1913
familyPtychagnostidaeKobayashi 1939
genusLejopygeHawle and Corda 1847
speciesarmata(Linnarsson 1869)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Lejopyge armata Linnarsson 1869
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 1.0 to < 10g
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10g
Spines: noneg
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: blindf
Created: 2009-02-25 10:21:32
Modified: 2009-02-25 12:21:32
Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order
References: Hendy 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Zhanaarykian to the top of the Furongian or 503.00000 to 485.40000 Ma

Collections (61 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Cambrian - Tremadocian538.8 - 477.7Norway (Haukelifjell) Lejopyge armata (192870)
Middle Cambrian509.0 - 497.0India Lejopyge armata (114634 114635)
St Davids509.0 - 497.0North Korea Lejopyge armata (49082)
Mayan504.5 - 499.5Russian Federation Lejopyge armata (10118)
Marjumian504.5 - 497.0Greenland (Peary Land) Lejopyge armata (49483)
Wangcunian504.5 - 497.0China (Hunan) Lejopyge armata (49165 49291 128333 128340 128341)
Wangcunian - Guzhangian504.5 - 497.0China (Hunan) Lejopyge armata (128925)
Wangcunian - Guzhangian504.5 - 497.0China (Zhejiang) Lejopyge armata (125535 125540 125541 125554 125683 125684 125685)
Zhanaarykian503.0 - 500.5Kazakhstan Lejopyge armata (9958 118102)
Guzhangian500.5 - 497.0Antarctica Lejopyge armata (227789)
Guzhangian500.5 - 497.0China (Hunan) Lejopyge armata (49166 49292 49293 49294 49295 49296 49298 49299 49300 126304 128343 128344 128345 128346 128347 128350 128351 128353 128354 128356 128357 128359 128362 128363 128365 128929 128930)
Ayusokkanian499.5 - 497.0Kazakhstan Lejopyge armata (9943 9944 9945 9947 9950 118158 118164 118165 118166 118168 118177)
Furongian497.0 - 485.4Norway (Telemark) Lejopyge armata (192871)